Marine motive power



(N'o Model.)

P. LUGHINI.

MARINE MOTIVE POWER.

No. 324,266. lemtentedl Attorney UNITED STA-TES' l' PATENT OFFICE.

rERDrNANDo LUcuiNr, or NAroHrrocnns, Louisiana.

MARINE Mo'TlvE POWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,266, dated August 11, 1885.

Application tiled October 14, 1884.

To all .whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, F. LUcHrNI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Natchitoches, in the parish of Natchitoches and State of Louisiana, have invented cert-ain new and useful Improvements in Marine Motive Power, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain means for operating the pumps and other machinery on ship-board; and it has for its object to utilize the rocking motion of the ship 'for such purposes, as more fully hereinafter described. This object I accomplish by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure I represents an elevation showing my invention applied to a hoisting device or apparatus. Fig. 2 represents an elevation showing the side of the apparatus opposite to that shown in Fig. I. Fig. 3 represents an elevation showing my invention as applied for operating the ships pumps. Fig. 4 indicates a sectional view taken on the line x x of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5' indicates a detached perv spective view of the mechanism by which the throw of the actuating-lever is adjusted.

The letter A indicates two uprights or vertical standards secured to the deck B of the vessel, and Ba horizontal yoke having apertures C and setting over the uprights which extend through said apertures C the yoke being capable of being adj usted vertically on the uprights and held in any desired position thereon by means of the setscrew D or other suitable clamping device. The yoke is provided with a longitudinal slot, E, through which passes an oscillating beam, F, pivoted between the uprights at G, one end of said beam Vbeing provided with a weight, II,which acts as a pendulum'to actuate the beam as the. vessel rocks from side to side or pitches forward and aft, according to the arrangement of the pendulum, as more fully hereinafter specified.

The beam F is provided with an oscillating beam, I, which has attached to its ends loosely the dependent beams K, which, as shown in Figs. I, 2, and 4, are serrated or provided with teeth on their inner sides,which arevadapted to engage the teeth of the iatchetwheels L M, respectively, and rotate the ratchets in op- (No model.)

posite directions at the respective downward strokes of said beams, the teeth of the beams slipping those of the wheels on the upper strokes of the beams K. The ratchet-wheels are mounted upon the journals N, which are adapted to rotate in bearings P in the frames Q, secured to the deck, the said journals projecting at one side, the projecting ends on such side being provided with intergearing cog-wheels R, whereby they are caus'ed to rotate together. The end of one of the journals at the opposite side is provided with a drum or pulley, S, upon which is wrapped a portion of one end of a hoisting rope or chain, which is passed over a suitable pulley located at any desired position in the rigging above. In the modification shown in Figs. 2 and 3 the weight is at the upper end of the oscillating beam. In Fig. I it is at the lower end of the same, but its operation is precisely alike in both cases, being actuated by the motion of the vessel, as will more fully hereinafter appear. v

In the modication shown in Fig. 3 the serrated beams are dispensed with,plain beams or rods being substituted which pass directly into the pump-cylinders and have the pistons connected to their lower ends. The yoke before mentioned, through the slot of which the vibrating beam passes, is provided with metallic springs T, which take up the shock of the vibrating beam at each end of its stroke and prevent it from seriously jarring the supports. I

The oscillating beam and the other parts of the apparatus may be arranged so as to receive motion at the forward and aft pitch of the vessel or at its lateral rocking motion, in the iirst instance the beam being arranged to vibrate longitudinally with the vessel, in the latter transversely thereto; or two sets of the devices may be employed, so as to derive 1notion from both motions of the vessel. y

The operation of my invention will be apparent, as it will be evident that the pitching of the vessel forward and aft will actuate the oscillating beam in one case to operate the hoisting or pumping mechanism, and thelat eral motion will operate it in the opposite direction when properly arranged for the purpose, as before described. Having thus described my invention, what I ICO claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1S-

1. The combination, with the weighted osei11e.ting;x beam, of theeross-bar, the dependent serrated hangers, the ratehet-wl1ee1s and their Shafts and jourmtl-be2ungs, the intergeorng oog-wheels mounted on the journals at 011e side, and thedrum mounted on one of the journals at the other side, the whole arranged to operate substantially 1'11 the mmmer :md for the purpose speeiied.

2. The combination, with the upright/S and the Weighted oscillating beam, of the slot-ted yoke adopted to be adj usted and clamped upon 

